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Kendrick Lamar sounds like a twelve-year-old

Coldplay didn't change the music they were making much, they were always cheesy and sentimental af; it was just "in" during the first few albums and is less trendy now.

'And Justice For All' is Metallica's best album

And 'Peace Sells.... But Who's Buying' is better and is the greatest thrash metal album

Piano is a terrible main melodic instrument as far as tone goes. It's much better suited as an accompaniment and chord-based rhythm instrument.

Most pop songs are at least 30 seconds too short and could benefit from more harmonic complexity and movement.

Playlists full of singles are the worst way to enjoy music.

_Valigarmanda_ posted...

Kendrick Lamar sounds like a twelve-year-old

He sounds much more raw in this verse.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KEgd_0Wu6cw&pp=ygUWZnJhZ2lsZSBrZW5kcmljayBsYW1hcg%3D%3D

American pop music the last 25 years is so bad that historians should study it in the future. And currently, a criminal investigation should probably be opened to find out what the hell is going on.

Toonstrack posted...

Coldplay didn't change the music they were making much, they were always cheesy and sentimental af; it was just "in" during the first few albums and is less trendy now.

They changed the arrangements a ton, though. Went from indie-pop with a lot of acoustic guitar and piano to full on drum computers/dance pop

John Lennon was/is trash.

Taylor Swift isnt talented. She just has a cult following that is easy to pander to.

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Shinedown is "Mom, can we have Rise Against?" "No, we have Rise Against at home" the band.

s0nicfan posted...

Shinedown is "Mom, can we have Rise Against?" "No, we have Rise Against at home" the band.

I don't see the similarities.

Shinedown is Kroger brand buttrock, Rise Against is Canal Street punk.

wanderingshade posted...

I dunno why I could get into Don Cab but not like Piglet and Hella. Something about old US mathrock seems really hit or miss for me. I should get more into Covet and CHON tho.

Hella is math rock for people with zero attention spans. I don't mind Hella though. Heir first album was dope I need to listen to the others.

Don Cab invented a lot of shit. They had a good mix of complexity, weirdness, soundscapes and hooks. A lot of bands seemingly have tried to do it again but they either forgot you need hooks and nothing seems all that deep. They aren't really too similar to Don Cab but they are instrumental. Save us From the Archon. Talented and neat to listen to but it's missing one or two layers beyond technical prowess at instruments to wow me.

But not everything is a missing match. Covet is dope. Piglet probably is but I haven't listened to them yet.

King Crimson not in the rock hall of fame makes the rock hall of fame illegitimate...among other reasons.

Euripides posted...

They changed the arrangements a ton, though. Went from indie-pop with a lot of acoustic guitar and piano to full on drum computers/dance pop

I mean, by the time you got to X and Y/ Mylo Xyloto they were kinda already doing that. Heck you can hear hints of it even earlier, the tunes they were using far back as their 2nd album lent themselves to that sort of style. Now they seem to alternate with an album focusing on more stripped back sounds like Everyday Life, and then a more pop oriented one like the last one they did. It wss more an expansion of sound palette than a full of swap.

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They have songs similar to the scientist on more recent works, like O from ghost stories, and they have songs from fairly early periods that signal the direction of tracks like orphans all the way back on Mylo Xyloto or even X and Y.

You csnt just cherry pick two completely different songs, the point is they've always had wide ambitions for what kinds sounds they wanted and they've always had some elements of multiple genres. They started branching out almost immediately, even stuff like clocks uses a lot of the same ideas as tracks like orphans just executed differently.

Queen's music is nothing special, except for Freddie Mercury delivery. Music itself is radio pop garbage.

EventualDecline posted...

American pop music the last 25 years is so bad that historians should study it in the future. And currently, a criminal investigation should probably be opened to find out what the hell is going on.

The last 25 years have been some of the greatest periods of recorded music in the recorded history of recorded music, at least in the west. Imagine saying this in an era where Gorillaz, Weeknd, Billie Eilish, Khalid, Brittany Spears, Justin Timberlake, Shakira Beyonce and Lana Del Rey have all released ample music and that is just scratch the surface. So much diversity in sound and execution, so many new ideas.

I love the 80s. But cmon. Demon Days came out in 04. That alone completely eviscerated this claim

In the last 25 years, we have The Fame Monster by Gaga, Dawn FM by The Weeknd, and Future Nostalgia by Dua, and etc.

What are we doooooiiiing here? Pop is doing fine.

tommybel89 posted...

In the last 25 years, we have The Fame Monster by Gaga, Dawn FM by The Weeknd, and Future Nostalgia by Dua, and etc.

What are we doooooiiiing here? Pop is doing fine.

Not to mention pop always being predominately shit, it's just we don't remember most of the songs because they showed up for a week and then fucked off.

tommybel89 posted...

In the last 25 years, we have The Fame Monster by Gaga, Dawn FM by The Weeknd, and Future Nostalgia by Dua, and etc.

What are we doooooiiiing here? Pop is doing fine.

I genuinely think Future Nostalgia is the greatest pop album of all time

Dakimakura posted...

I like metalcore

Same

Bruno Mars is legit the best pop act in the last 20 years

DavidZ2844 posted...

I genuinely think Future Nostalgia is the greatest pop album of all time

It's the album of the pandemic for sure! It's phenomenal.

Metalcore rules. Bring Me the Horizon is f***ing aces.

tommybel89 posted...

Metalcore rules. Bring Me the Horizon is f***ing aces.

I do t listen to them but Kingslayer (the song Sunetal did guest vocals on) is fire.

Gangstah rap effectively ruined the entire genre by with it's infantile slang and moves.
Most rap lyrics can basically be encapsulated as:

I'm from the ghetto yo
I like money n' bitches yo
Don't you be dissin' me yo
Or I'ma shoot yo ass yo
Cuz I am gangstah yo
THIS IS DA REEEEEMIIIIIIX

And the saddest thing is that these 'rappers' truly don't realize how much they're embarrassing themselves.

Aressar posted...

Bars

Aressar posted...

Gangstah rap effectively ruined the entire genre by with it's infantile slang and moves.
Most rap lyrics can basically be encapsulated as:

I'm from the ghetto yo
I like money n' bitches yo
Don't you be dissin' me yo
Or I'ma shoot yo ass yo
Cuz I am gangstah yo
THIS IS DA REEEEEMIIIIIIX

And the saddest thing is that these 'rappers' truly don't realize how much they're embarrassing themselves.

I wanna post that meme of the kid sitting at the computer sooooooo bad rn

Nonsense lyrics make a song unlistenable.

I don't necessarily have to know what they're talking about, but they need to have coherent thoughts.

For example, The Moody Blues's Knights in White Satin. I have no idea what they're talking about, but wearing white clothing is a thing a knight can do, for example, and the chorus of "and I'll love you" is pretty straightforward.

Contrast with They Might Be Giants. I don't know what it means to build a birdhouse in my soul. Or what it means for a well to be electrical.

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Nonsense lyrics make a song unlistenable.

I don't necessarily have to know what they're talking about, but they need to have coherent thoughts.

For example, The Moody Blues's Knights in White Satin. I have no idea what they're talking about, but wearing white clothing is a thing a knight can do, for example, and the chorus of "and I'll love you" is pretty straightforward.

Contrast with They Might Be Giants. I don't know what it means to build a birdhouse in my soul. Or what it means for a well to be electrical.

It's nights in white satin. It's about a ex-lover and he misses her. He writes her but doesn't send the love letters to her. He's not sure how he feels about her, but he admits he loves her. The spoken word at the end which depends is it's on radio or not I figured it was a poem in the letters

A song I like that has the same theme is. 10cc's I'm not in love. If you closely listen to the lyrics He's admitting that he is.

Aressar posted...

Gangstah rap effectively ruined the entire genre by with it's infantile slang and moves.
Most rap lyrics can basically be encapsulated as:

I'm from the ghetto yo
I like money n' bitches yo
Don't you be dissin' me yo
Or I'ma shoot yo ass yo
Cuz I am gangstah yo
THIS IS DA REEEEEMIIIIIIX

And the saddest thing is that these 'rappers' truly don't realize how much they're embarrassing themselves.

Id be way more embarrassed if i typed that out and posted it lmao

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Nonsense lyrics make a song unlistenable.

I don't necessarily have to know what they're talking about, but they need to have coherent thoughts.

For example, The Moody Blues's Knights in White Satin. I have no idea what they're talking about, but wearing white clothing is a thing a knight can do, for example, and the chorus of "and I'll love you" is pretty straightforward.

Contrast with They Might Be Giants. I don't know what it means to build a birdhouse in my soul. Or what it means for a well to be electrical.

Birdhouse In My Soul is literally just about a nightlight.

ssb_yunglink2 posted...

Id be way more embarrassed if i typed that out and posted it lmao

No surprise coming from someone who apparently cares about 'dissing' so much.

Aressar posted...

No surprise coming from someone who apparently cares about 'dissing' so much.

Mate, you fucked up and you're getting very valid feedback from it.

Aressar posted...

Gangstah rap effectively ruined the entire genre by with it's infantile slang and moves.
Most rap lyrics can basically be encapsulated as:

I'm from the ghetto yo
I like money n' bitches yo
Don't you be dissin' me yo
Or I'ma shoot yo ass yo
Cuz I am gangstah yo
THIS IS DA REEEEEMIIIIIIX

And the saddest thing is that these 'rappers' truly don't realize how much they're embarrassing themselves.

Well this is supposed to be opinions that irritate people.

No reason you can't post ones stolen from a 1990s grandmother.

vycebrand2 posted...

It's nights in white satin. It's about a ex-lover and he misses her. He writes her but doesn't send the love letters to her. He's not sure how he feels about her, but he admits he loves her. The spoken word at the end which depends is it's on radio or not I figured it was a poem in the letters

A song I like that has the same theme is. 10cc's I'm not in love. If you closely listen to the lyrics He's admitting that he is.

Makes sense. But hopefully everyone can see where I was coming from, because I found it harder than I expected to explain the distinction.

Aressar posted...

No surprise coming from someone who apparently cares about 'dissing' so much.

okay so youre going to dig your heels in and continue embarrassing yourself lmao

SF_Okami posted...

I love EDM lol

DavidZ2844 posted...

EDM or just electronic in general is the best genre of music and its not even close really. So much more variety than band guitar stuff.

I pretty much never interact with any of the music threads on CE because its always a bunch of old people jerking off to bands and guitar music, which all sound the same to me. No one ever likes EDM.

I do like hip-hop/rap though and can enjoy discourse on that here every now and then, but its mostly all band guitar stuff here, like 99% of all the music discussion tbh

I agree. I've always felt that EDM has more variety and potential for completely new sounds and elements that new minds can bring. (Rezz, Sudden Death, Excision, Clozee)

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Contrast with They Might Be Giants. I don't know what it means to build a birdhouse in my soul. Or what it means for a well to be electrical.

Birdhouse in Your Soul is sung from the point of view of a blue canary shaped nightlight ("spelled L I T E") "in the outlet by the light switch, who watches over you", that just wants to be loved. Make a place for it in your heart a birdhouse in your soul!

Daremo posted...

Birdhouse in Your Soul is sung from the point of view of a blue canary shaped nightlight ("spelled L I T E") "in the outlet by the light switch, who watches over you", that just wants to be loved. Make a place for it in your heart a birdhouse in your soul!

Not helping your case here

RetuenOfDevsman posted...

Not helping your case here

That's because he wear no shoeshine.

The Beatles are appropriately rated.

orangefire25 posted...

I agree. I've always felt that EDM has more variety and potential for completely new sounds and elements that new minds can bring. (Rezz, Sudden Death, Excision, Clozee)

Huge fan of all those artists you mentioned. While I do still like house (which is probably the most popular and mainstream genre of EDM right now), I much prefer bass heavy EDM more than anything else. Trap and dubstep are so much more interesting to listen to and more my speed.